Yeah, we are far, far more liberal in a classical sense with free speech laws, but you absolutely go out and incite violence or defame someone etc., and if you do so from a hate perspective, it's a crime. On top of that, countless institutions deal with this sort of thing the American way. Like it or not, it's pretty standard practice to voluntarily fire/expel/suspend/fine workers over hate speech..
Defamation is not a crime, it's a civil tort, no matter the motivation. You can't be criminally prosecuted for defamation in America, even if you do it from a "hate perspective."
Again, there are no "hate speech" laws in the US, and there's no "hate speech" exception to the Constitution. In fact it's one of the few things the SCOTUS has pretty much been unanimous on.
There are
hate crime enhancements to existing statues, which call for increased penalties for crimes
motivated by certain reasons (e.g. racial animus). But it's not the same as a prohibiting "hate speech". In fact, even in crimes with a hate crime enhancement, it's not the speech that enhances the penalty, it's the
motivation...the speech can merely be evidence of the hateful motivation. There must be an underlying crime accompanying the hateful motivation, and all the elements of that crime must be met PLUS you must prove hateful motivation (generally, motivated by animus towards someone's sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, etc).
For example, battery is a crime.
If I hit you with a baseball bat, that's battery.
If I hit you with a baseball and I'm motivated by racial animus, that's battery, with a hate crime enhancement (meaning, you could get a harsher sentence). If I call you the N word while I'm beating you, that's evidence that I'm motived by racial animus, but calling you the name in itself doesn't mean it's a hate crime.
But most importantly, if I merely call you the N word without physically attacking you, I haven't committed a crime at all. Because calling someone a hateful word is as protected under the Constitution as engaging in political speech or any other protected speech.
That's all very different than "hate speech" laws in places like France, where simply using hateful or even antisocial language can be a
crime in itself.
On top of that, countless institutions deal with this sort of thing the American way. Like it or not, it's pretty standard practice to voluntarily fire/expel/suspend/fine workers over hate speech..
Well of course. Private institutions and individuals have their own ways of dealing with what they regard as hate speech, but they don't have the Constitutional limits the government has. So yeah, if I use the N word on Interference, Diemen could bounce me (and rightly so) but the US Government couldn't throw me in jail (and rightly so).